A lot of takes that Prigozhin signed his own death warrant via this deal, which, ironically, is exactly the opposite of what he just did, which is to get his literal death warrant officially unsigned

@Pwnallthethings In my naive, don’t really know nutthin’ manner, I think along these lines.

On one hand, he made Putin look weak.

On the other, I suspect he’s—to borrow a term from The Sopranos—an earner (and maybe sharing more profits from the Africa enterprise smoothed out some things today), and it seems his goal was not to run the hot dog stand, but chase incompetent military leadership.

But that first hand is a doozy and Belarus doesn’t strike me as a real safe harbor.